Frame generator tests wireless compliance

Available from Saelig, the UWB Generator 320 is billed as the world's first frame generator for WiMedia ultrawideband and Certified Wireless USB protocols. It helps verify product and component reliability by generating reproducible traffic, timing and error scenarios. Containing a specialised processor designed specifically for WiMedia and Certified Wireless USB protocols, the UWB Generator 320 produces sequences of arbitrary frames with programmable interframe delay, and can then wait for any response (frame or event).

The processor's instruction set enables users to emulate Wireless USB hosts and devices as well as WiMedia equipment.

Integrated with Ellisys' leading WiMedia protocol analysis software, users can reproduce previously recorded scenarios, or modify them for testing and recovery mechanisms.

Based on the proven Ellisys' Wireless USB Explorer 300 protocol analyser, the UWB Generator 320 provides a powerful new test methodology to maximise the quality of a protocol implementation and overcome ultrawideband R and D challenges.

Weighing less than 1kg, in a small, sturdy metal housing 150 x 120 x 65mm, no external power supply is needed as the UWB Generator 320 is powered from the USB.

LED indicators show power, transmission or reception, and trigger event detection.

The UWB Generator 320 is available now as stand-alone hardware or a software upgrade to Ellisys' WUSB Explorer300.